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  • Title: [Left ventricular pseudo-false aneurysm after a myocardial infarction; application of heart positioner].
    Author: Furutachi A, Yoshikai M, Ohnishi H, Fumoto H.
    Journal: Kyobu Geka; 2005 Sep; 58(10):879-82. PubMed ID: 16167813.
    Abstract:
    We herein present the case of a pseudo-false aneurysm which developed in a patient after a myocardial infarction in the posterior left ventricular wall. A 71-year-old man experienced an acute myocardial infarction due to occlusion in the left circumflex artery. Five weeks after the myocardial infarction, echocardiography and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) disclosed a pseudo-false aneurysm at the posterior left ventricular wall. A patch closure of the aneurysm and coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) to both the left anterior descending artery and the left circumflex arteries were successfully performed. At surgery, the Starfish Heart Positioner, a commercially available device that is designed to lift the heart during off-pump CABG, was found to be very useful for exposing the posterior left ventricular wall by lifting and fixing the apex of the left ventricle.
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